The somewhat sporadic ritual where rich white liberals wash the feet of minorities has to be the weirdest bit of racism to come out of the compulsory racist teachings of the institutional left. In the first draft I had the adjective “unintentional” in front of “racism”, but any people who publish “white culture” posters that claim it’s white culture to plan for the future, use logic, and understand cause and effect probably understand very well what they’re doing.

It’s interesting to compare this bit of specious invocation of religion with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I have a dream speech. I have a dream only made sense to people who understood the Biblical references King was making, whether it be people who were themselves religious or people who had seen Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments as little as three years earlier.¹

King’s speech, in other words, required knowledge of its listeners. This modern washing of the feet, in contrast, requires ignorance, at least if it’s going to be taken at face value. If you’re familiar with the event it’s drawing on, it doesn’t make any sense.

The foot-washing in the Bible that this modern foot ritual resembles was the Son of God washing the feet of imperfect man to cleanse them of their sins. The explanation that racists have made up for the ritual that if “even Jesus” can wash the feet of the apostles, surely we can wash the feet of those we’ve oppressed falls completely apart to anyone who actually goes back to the Biblical narrative it’s invoking.

But… it’s not “even Jesus”. It’s only Jesus. Unless the foot-washing goes both ways, this was not something that man can emulate, not without a lot of hubris, especially in the form it takes: it’s always the white liberal in these rituals taking the place of Jesus, and the minority is always the person getting their foot washed.

Jesus was literally washing their feet because he was better than them. Peter said, no way you’re going to wash my feet, I should wash your feet. Jesus replied, in effect, you’re dirty and I’m not. You are not worthy to enter my home unless I wash your feet.

You can wash each other’s feet later, he said, but tonight this only goes one way, because, while you have been cleansed by my presence, you remain imperfect.

“Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.”

That’s the message of the washing of the feet. The person doing the washing is the Master, and the person getting their feet washed is the follower, even the servant.

But it gets worse.

Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

The washing of the feet is a spiritual cleansing of the person whose feet are being washed by a person who is literally Lording it over them. You’re dirty, you’re smelly, and you need to be forgiven for your many, many sins.

That’s what these white liberal foot-washers are saying to the people whose feet they’re washing.

Now, Jesus did go on to say that we should “wash one another’s feet”, but that only works if, in fact, we wash one another’s feet. Any ritual in which only one person does the washing and only one class of person gets the washing evokes the Last Supper ritual, not the ritual commanded by Jesus.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

This message should not be a surprise, coming from the same elitists who tell blacks to sacrifice millions of black children in a bloody ritual because those lives are not worthy of living. It’s the white left that is worthy. Black, white, brown, or paisley, everyone else is worthy only to be servants of the white left. It’s in every policy they command.